Don't rely on AI to hunt for lost media!

Please forgive my ignorance, but what do you mean by using AI to search for lost media?

My best guess is that it's like asking it where to find something, because models like Chat GPT have used basically the entire internet as its training data. In reality, AI like that would probably only be able to give useless suggestions (like looking for it on YouTube, assuming someone hasn't tried that already) or give out false leads. Chat AI can only sequence words together rather than actually understand speech and context the same way humans do, but a lot of people believe AI is actually some sort of person or an alternative to Google. In actuality, it knows about as much as my left foot.

That being said, I'm surprised anyone would use something like that to search for lost media. It can't even do math correctly a lot of the time, I can't imagine trusting it to find anything a human already can't. I'm going to keep my faith in humanity intact and just hope it's one or two people doing this and that there aren't potentially more people trying that just haven't said anything.

I remember another person (or maybe it's the same one you're talking about idk) who tried this, and it said London After Midnight was on The Internet Archive. LM Hunting with AI is a cool idea, but the way I see it AI is too unreliable for this kind of stuff.

Okay, that’s what I was thinking but I just wanted clarification. Yeah AI can create things, but it can’t magically find a bunch of unaired pilots one a file sharing site (for example). 

I specifically remember when I was looking for what Disney show and episode had that “litterbug jitterbug” song, putting the lyrics I remember out and mentioning the bug segment I remembered. Sure, the show was right and I found it now, but it just kept giving me the same nonexistent episode name, or at times something similar: “Don’t Litter”, which I gave the few lyrics I remembered accurately. Hell, there was a time it mentioned a Winnie the Pooh show when I stated I remembered Alice and the White Bunny cleaning litter up in the song.

I am going to bump because this should be common knowledge, I have seen so many people AI extending Lostwaves when there isn't any point to do this. Someone should pin this Thread